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Agenda 21
The MDGs in the United
Nations Headquarters in New-YorkThe Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international
development goals that 192 United Nations member states
and at least 23 international organizations have agreed
to achieve by the year 2015. They include reducing
extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates,
fighting disease epidemics such as AIDS, and developing
a global partnership for development.
Background
Heads of State at the Millennium SummitIn 2001,
recognizing the need to assist impoverished nations more
aggressively, UN member states adopted the targets. The
MDGs aim to spur development by improving social and
economic conditions in the world's poorest countries.
They derive from earlier international development
targets[2], and were officially established at the
Millennium Summit in 2000, where all world leaders
present adopted the United Nations Millennium
Declaration, from which the eight goals were promoted.
Goals
The percentage of the world's population living on less
than $1 per day has halved in twenty years. Most of this
improvement has occurred in East and South Asia. The
graph shows the 1981-2001 period.The Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) were developed out of the eight
chapters of the United Nations Millennium Declaration,
signed in September 2000. The eight goals and 21 targets
include
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End Poverty
and Hunger
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Achieve
universal primary education
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Ensure that,
by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike,
will be able to complete a full course of primary
schooling.
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Promote
gender equality and empower women
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Eliminate
gender disparity in primary and secondary education
preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.
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Reduce
child mortality
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Reduce
by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five
mortality rate.
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Improve
maternal health
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Reduce by
three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal
mortality ratio.
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Achieve, by
2015, universal access to reproductive health.
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Combat
HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
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Have halted by
2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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Achieve, by
2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for
all those who need it.
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Have halted by
2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria
and other major diseases.
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Ensure
environmental sustainability
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Integrate the
principles of sustainable development into country
policies and programmes; reverse loss of
environmental resources.
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Reduce
biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant
reduction in the rate of loss.
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Halve, by
2015, the proportion of people without sustainable
access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
(for more information see the entry on water
supply).
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By 2020, to
have achieved a significant improvement in the lives
of at least 100 million slum-dwellers.
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GOAL 8:
DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT
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